The Australian Federal Police fear nearly all of the crew from the North Korean drug ship Pong Su were executed after their deportation from Australia in 2004. 9News
Though the bulk of the Pong Su's crew did not face trial over the April 2003 operation to land 150 kilograms of heroin near Lorne on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, they could have faced adverse consequences back in North Korea for being involved in drug trafficking or using resources of the state to commit serious crimes.
Mr Thae was North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom at the time of his 2016 defection to the west. The former coordinator of the United Nations Security Council panel of experts on North Korea, Hugh Griffiths, declined to comment on the fate of the Pong Su's crew. The body of the drowned Pong Su crew member was found buried beneath roads on a beach near Boggaley Creek in Lorne.
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